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On February 25, 1998, world-famous opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti was all set to perform the aria Nessun dorma from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot at the 1998 Grammy Awards. That evening, after the show had already begun, he became too ill to perform as planned (which was frustratingly common with Pavarotti — he was called the “king of cancellations”). The producers of the show were desperate to find a way to fill Pavarotti’s time slot and approached X, who was also scheduled to perform one of their own wildly iconic hits that night.
X asked to listen to Pavarotti’s rehearsal once and agreed on the spot to perform in Pavarotti’s stead, with almost none of the meticulous prep that a performance this complex would’ve required – and they absolutely nailed it. Over a billion people worldwide watched the performance, and X was met with an instant standing ovation. X went on to record the aria and perform it live several more times in later years, most notably for Pope Francis in 2015.
Who is X?
The word X meaning ‘a walled area’ or ‘enclosure’ in Old Iranian was mentioned in the work Anabasis by the Greek soldier and writer Xenophon in which it is described as a ‘park for animals’. However, its meaning has evolved into many languages including English to describe a certain, special place.
Identify X.
Lake Priyadarshini an important freshwater source for Indians working at this location.
Where is this lake located?
Hint: Think cold
Which dreaded word commonly used today originally meant ‘a line drawn within or around a prison that a prisoner passes at the risk of being shot’.
This 2015 movie was based on the story of a person who predicted something which very few people could. He currently goes by the name Cassandra on X/Twitter, after the mythological character cursed to predict the future, but never heard by anyone.
Identify the movie & person whose story it tells.
Known as the Omron Rings, why would this constellation be in everyone’s pockets?
How is this imaginary fish related to the world of finance?
In 1983, Mr Harpal paid a princely sum of Rs 47,500 to purchase this. It was such a big deal that it was handed to him by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
What did he purchase?
This place was originally called Qomolangma (meaning Holy Mother) in the local language.
Over the years it has been called by several other names such as:
Peak XV
Deodungha
Gauri Shankar
Identify the place.
Which website is famous for showing images of dogs when you end up clicking on a webpage with an error?
Apeks, Atomic Aquatics, Cressi, Mares, Sherwood, and Zeagle are all popular brands of scuba regulators — but arguably the oldest and best known is another brand that shares its name with a famous 1971 rock “concept” album (and its title song).
What brand?
Who recently ended their multi-decade partnership with a major sports company, to launched their own brand called – Sun Day Red?
Show Answer Tiger Woods.
Woods ended his partnership with Nike of 27 years, to launch his own brand called Sun Day Red, inspired by his clothing at Golf events. The logo is a tiger with 15 stripes for his 15 major championships, with the provision to add more stripes to count future wins.
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In 2003, electronic games company Radica released X, a handheld game device which is a hardware-based offshoot of a 1996 website with the same name that itself is, in essence, a computerized version of a much older, free-form party game. X (both the device and the website) has gained cult status in certain circles for being “scarily accurate”, owing to the way it was designed – the website is built upon an early AI neural network that actually enables it to learn and fine-tune its strategy as it plays, and the handheld device is loaded with a smaller version of the neural network that limits its ability to “learn”, but is very accurate regardless.
What are we talking about here?
Connect the following clues from a non-exhaustive list:
1988 – a dove carrying a laurel branch
2000 – Sydney Opera House
2008 – Jade ring
2012 – Thames river
2024 – scrap of iron from the Eiffel Tower
X is a 2010 bestselling fiction book, the fifth in its series, that edged out former US President George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points (which was released on the same day) in sales in its first week of publication.
What book is this?
First time X was observed by the ‘outside world’ was when a group of French sailors happened to enter a town & saw the event.
The person was bathed, dressed in white robes, and served his favorite foods for a last meal. He would also prepare by writing a poem.
What am I talking about?
In his 1631 treatise Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis, Dutch physician and explorer Jacobus Bontius wrote, of a tribe he’d encountered in the jungles of what is now Indonesia, that “the Malays informed him that the X could talk, but preferred not to, lest they be compelled to labor.”*
Bontius’ mention of X was the Western world’s first introduction to the name of this tribe, a word that passed from Dutch to Portuguese to English and is still used today in slightly modified form – ironically, even speakers of modern Malay and Indonesian use the European corruption of the name, even though its etymology lies in Old Malay.
Who are the X?
*Considering Bontius was there as part of a Dutch East India Company expedition, this was probably a very good idea.
Prior to his most famous match, X announced that he would win by a margin of 5-0, or 4-1, in the 5 game series. The match did end up with a 4-1 result, only it was in favour of X’s opponent. He later said of the match (after his win in game 4)
“I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good after winning just one match. I remember when I said I will win all or lose just one game in the beginning. If this had really happened ― I won 3 rounds and lost this round ― it would have had a great bearing on my reputation. However, since I won after losing 3 games in a row, I am so happy. I will never exchange this win for anything in the world. I, X, lost, but mankind did not.”
Id X.